Ed Helms Gossip

A high-concept comedy based on a Wall Street Journal article about a group of middle-aged dudes who play tag is not a sure thing, to say the least. But Tag, the movie based on that article, is, surprisingly, not bad. It’s not great, like most studio comedies it’s too broad for that—Popstar is the only recent studio comedy Full Story

When it comes to release date shuffling, Tulip Fever is the gold standard. But there is another movie that has quietly been shuffled on and off the release slate, and that is the Owen Wilson Full Story

It’s fall, which means it’s time for trailers for award bait films, holiday-season tent poles, and the utter dreck that gets buried out back during January. This post is about a road-comedy movie starring Owen Wilson Full Story

There are seven movies in the Vacation franchise—can you name them all?—and only two of them are any good: National Lampoon’s Vacation, and Christmas Vacation. John Hughes wrote both (and he co-wrote European Vacation), and the first Vacation movie—the best of the bunch—was directed by Harold Ramis. Full Story

Remember the National Lampoon’s Vacation movies? You know, the two terrible ones no one talks about, and then the first one that most people like and the Christmas one that everyone likes? Well there’s a new one. Chevy Chase is still around as the patriarch of the perpetually doomed Griswold family, but now the role of “manically determined to have fun at all costs father” is being played by Ed Helms as the grown up Rusty Griswold. Full Story

This is the new video for Hopeless Wanderer from Mumford & Sons. The band didn’t have to do anything. Because they don’t appear at all. Instead, in their places, are Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis, Ed Helms, and Will Forte. It’s a folk parody. It’s good. Especially the tambourine around Bateman’s neck and the fact that they each are carrying around like 18 instruments on their bodies. Full Story

But first... Can we play Photo Assumption on this shot of Megan Fox and Jessica Alba? Fox being there, I sort of understand, because she’s in This Is 40, coming out very soon. Alba...? What was Alba’s last movie? I don’t remember Alba’s last movie. Does Alba even make movies anymore?  I think of Alba now and hemp diapers come to mind. Full Story

Here’s what I like about it: I like opening with Kanye West. I like looking at Bradley Cooper all sweaty, with shades on, and an open neck shirt, walking in slow motion in front of two other guys. I also like some of Ed Helms’s reactions. And when Galifianakis says “PF Chang’s”, I laughed. Full Story